Turkish man who just illegally crossed the US border immediately becomes border hawk, says he's worried about who's coming in and warns of the possibility of 'killers and psychopaths' entering the country. Basically, the American dream in 30 seconds.

BOOM!! APPROVED! There it is. The SEC just approved spot #Ethereum ETFs. What a turn of events. It's really happening.

h/t Phoenix » PhoenixNews.io

You'd have to go pretty far for me to say that a medical school should either be sued entirely out of existence or denied any additional federal funds, which would amount to the same thing. But if even half the allegations in this article are true, UCLA Medical School should

Delighted to talk with Rachel Leah Siegel of @WashingtonPost as she brilliantly investigated the economic effects of proposals for mass deportation and exclusion

—> washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

I summarize the research here—> piie.com/blogs/realtime… CC Peterson Institute George Mason Economics Mason Research

I've written a lot about low fertility and I've always framed it as a big problem.

If you care about continuing the economic growth, then low fertility is a massive challenge.

But from a degrowth perspective, low fertility is a blessing.
maximum-progress.com/p/low-fertilit…

Why the U.S. has such a robust low skilled labor market:

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House passes bill banning the Federal Reserve from establishing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

CBDC is one of the greatest threats to our freedom b/c the gov’t could track every dollar you spend and even “turn off” your money

RECORD PERFORMANCE: a single Sovereign Chain hit 70,000+ TPS during live community speed test ⚡

New industry benchmarks set from the very beginnings.

#SovereignChains

Devices, too. The Freestyle Libre was a game changer for my Type 1 diabetic family, but it was so frustrating having to wait for US approval when we could have had it earlier in many other places. European approval was 2014, but FDA took until 2017.

SCOOP: Whistleblowers at UCLA medical school say it has dramatically lowered admissions standards for minority applicants.

As a result, they say, 50% of some cohorts now fail basic tests of medical competence.

We've obtained shocking internal data.🧵
freebeacon.com/campus/a-faile…

UCLA announces that they are 23% Hispanic, but they need to get to 25% to become a 'Hispanic-Serving Institute' (actually 'Hispanic-Serving Institution') and get more federal money.

The category of 'HSI' traces back to a 1965 federal law and was meant to give extra resources to

Asian women in the US earn more than while men.

Wonder if this data is used when talking about gender and racial disparity.

everything is 'near schools', because we try to design our cities so everyone has a school nearby. I've written about this dumb panic before:

citybeautiful.nz/2022/04/in-cit…

Rahul Gandhi’s anti-business philosophy and redistributionist fantasies could turn India into Venezuela on the Ganges. [My take] v Wall Street Journal Opinion
wsj.com/articles/india…

Crypto is just the next step in the evolution of computer systems, and its development must take place within the US for the US to preserve its technological lead.

The Securities Act of 1933 is the principle securities law of the United States. It is relevant to all other securities regulation and was referenced in today’s FIT bill.

The act was written and passed by men born in the late 1800s. They grew up before the automobile and before

multiversx.com/sovereign-chai…

Bird flu H5N1 confirmed to infect another person

• We have no idea how widespread human infections
• We're barely looking
• Its playing w fire - we should be doing everything absolutely possible to stop H5N1 from evolving to human-human transmission

medpagetoday.com/infectiousdise…

The British system has its problems but the fact that election season will be over in just 6 weeks is a true blessing.